Efficient LP warmstarting for linear modifications of the constraint matrix
Abstract
We consider the problem of computing the optimal solution and objective of a linear program under linearly changing linear constraints. The problem studied is given by where belongs to a set of predefined values . Based on the information given by a precomputed basis, we present three efficient LP warm-starting algorithms. Each algorithm is either based on the eigenvalue decomposition, the Schur decomposition, or a tweaked eigenvalue decomposition to evaluate the optimal solution and optimal objective of these problems. The three algorithms have an overall complexity where (resp. ) is the number of constraints (resp. variables) of the original problem and the number of values in after an initial preprocessing step. We also provide theorems related to the optimality conditions to verify when a basis is still optimal and a local bound on the objective.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.04151,
title = {Efficient LP warmstarting for linear modifications of the constraint matrix},
author = {Guillaume Derval and Bardhyl Miftari and Damien Ernst and Quentin Louveaux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04151},
year = {2026}
}